Whose duty is it to advise that some healthcare professionals will not help you or refer you?
In ‘A consequentialist case for permitting conscientious objection in healthcare,’ Steve Clarke proposes a publicly available registry for people seeking certain medical procedures (eg, abortion) to which some clinicians object for moral reasons. 1 The registry would list healthcare professionals (HCPs) available to perform those procedures, and patients could locate clinicians willing to help them and bypass the others. HCPs could also use the registry as an informational source for
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Published: 22 July 2026
Source: Journal of Medical Ethics (BMJ)
Category: Research
Topics: Healthcare
Retrieved: 23 July 2026
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